If we have a cull of anything it should be dogs, not foxes

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If I were giving careers advice to wild animals with an occasional taste for human flesh, I know what I would tell them: get out of Europe and colonise a developing country. You might find your family members poached from time to time, but at least you will have the full weight of Western conservationists behind you.

Yesterday’s papers carried stories of two creatures who found themselves in confrontation with humans. There was the unnamed fox who bit off the finger of one-month-old Denny Dolan, of Bromley. And there was Lolong, a 21ft long, 50-year-old saltwater crocodile that was captured